Longview, Wash. – Port of Longview commissioners went before a large group of longshoremen, and withstood a barrage of negative testimony over the port’s handling of the union’s labor dispute with Grain Elevator operator EGT.
MOORHEAD – The National Labor Relations Board has dismissed claims by union workers who alleged American Crystal Sugar executives failed to negotiate in good faith before locking out 1,300 employees on Aug. 1.
With the NFL lockout earlier this year and the current NBA lockout, sports fans are once again getting a taste of what it is like when a sport goes through a labor dispute.
Verizon union worker Deadre Anderson carefully guided a set of wires along a wall yesterday, searching for the right connection in a sea of tiny holes.
Boeing will deliver its first 787 Dreamliner airplane today. Bought by All Nippon Airways, the plane will be flown from Seattle to Japan. Heralded as the future of commercial air travel, as well as the future of the Boeing Corporation, the sophisticated carbon-composite aircraft has been plagued by problems of delay and quality control in the company’s increasingly complex global supply chain. Three years behind schedule, the cost of the Dreamliner has exceeded $32 billion, over double the usual development cost of a new airliner.
Chrysler and the UAW say their talks about a new four-year labor agreement are continuing at the highest level and have not, as widely reported, fallen apart.
DETROIT — Contract talks between the United Automobile Workers and the Ford Motor Company intensified Monday, but the union was preparing for a strike in case a deal could not be reached.
The largest U.S. refinery workers’ union is prepared to strike for the first time in 32 years unless oil companies agree to step up safeguards by next February, a top union official said on Friday.
The lead negotiator for the United Steelworkers said the union representing employees at 69 U.S. oil refineries is prepared to strike if companies don’t agree to stricter safety procedures at plants and pipelines.
The USW, which failed during contract negotiations in 2009 to get companies to agree to have a USW-trained safety specialist at each refinery, will make a similar demand during talks that begin in January for a new three-year pact, Gary Beevers, a USW vice president, said today.
